Nobody has infinite money, and very few people come close enough for it to not matter. With that in mind we wrote our previous articles about PC games under $1 and games under $10.

This time we increase the price range, with $20 as the upper limit. Mind, the following games are just a select few that qualify based on their price. The G2A Marketplace has thousands of games you could buy for $20 or less

NameRelease dateGenre / Type
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Hogwarts Legacy 2023-02-10 Action & RPG
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 2022-11-30 Horror & Action
Farming Simulator 22 2021-11-22 Simulation
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Bundle 2007-03-20 Adventure
Grand Theft Auto V 2015-04-14 Adventure
Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition 2011-11-18 Sandbox
Project Zomboid 2013-11-08 Indie
Delta Force: Hawk Ops | Closed Alpha 2024 Shooter
Dead by Daylight 2016-06-14 Adventure
Assetto Corsa 2014-12-19 Indie
NBA 2K24 | Kobe Bryant Edition 2023-09-08
Dark Souls: Remastered 2018-05-24 Action
Crusader Kings III 2020-09-01 Strategy
Satisfactory 2020-06-08 Building
DOOM Eternal 2020-03-20 Action
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016-10-27 Adventure
Dying Light | Definitive Edition 2015-01-26 Adventure
Sid Meier's Civilization VI 2016-10-20 Economy
Risk of Rain 2 2019-03-28 Indie
Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition 2013-09-02 Strategy
Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition 2017-09-26 RPG
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition 2009-10-13 RPG
Just Cause 4 | Complete Edition 2018-12-04 Adventure
Mortal Kombat 11 2019-04-23 Action
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 2018-03-08 Cooperation
7 Days to Die 2013-12-13 Adventure
RESIDENT EVIL 3 2020-04-03 Action
RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2 2019-01-25 Action
Maneater 2021-05-25
Terraria 2011-05-16 Adventure
Tabletop Simulator 2015-06-05 Indie
Conan Exiles 2017-01-30 Adventure
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 2019-11-14 Strategy
Metro Exodus 2020-02-14 Adventure
Kenshi 2018-12-06 Indie
Slay the Spire 2019-01-23 Indie

Overcooked! 2

Release date:2018-08-07
Genre:Indie
Developer:Ghost Town Games

If you’re looking for game which is relatively cheap, can be played in co-op, can destroy friendships, and is deceptively wholesome, do turn your gaze to Overcooked 2. The original OC was excellent, and the sequel turns it up a notch: a hectic, inevitably chaotic arcade kitchen simulation for up to 4 players in local and/or online multiplayer. And all that under 20 bucks? That’s a steal.

Each stage in Overcooked gives you at least one dish to prepare, which sounds simple, until you the maps. Each part of the dish has to be made at a specific workstation, and the layouts tend to be changing, or otherwise complicated. Add to that the possibility of people fighting over workstation access and you get a highly entertaining storm which would challenge even a seasoned manager.

Key features
  • Silly co-op game which will put your friendships to the test
  • Pleasant, cartoonish aesthetic
  • Dynamic (chaotic!) stages
  • Can handle both local and online co-op, and even combine the two

Deep Rock Galactic

Release date:2018-02-28
Genre:First-Person
Developer:Ghost Ship Games

Another splendid co-op game you could get under twenty bucks and keep playing forever. Especially since, in this case, it’s perfectly viable for a solo experience. You even get a helpful drone if you commit to singleplayer. Either way, you’ll be going on mining deployments into procedurally generated tunnels deep under the surface of an alien, and resource-rich planet called Hoxxes IV.

DRG has four classes with unique weapons and gadgets (some of which you must unlock), many mission types, tons of cool customization options, a good sense of humor, and, most importantly, chatty space dwarves as player characters. It’s a whole lot of game and fun for a relatively small price, and regular Seasons provide easy access to fancy cosmetics before they enter regular loot tables.

Key features
  • Perk-based progression of characters and items
  • Procedurally generated levels filled with riches and threats
  • Well defined classes with fun gadgets and customizable weapons
  • Deeply customizable space dwarves

Crusader Kings III

Release date:2020-09-01
Genre:Strategy
Developer:Paradox Development Studio

We’ve wholesomely cooked, and amusingly mined, it’s time to sink into the hilarity that are the pits of depravity you can sink into in Crusader Kings III. This complex simulator of medieval noble house is one of the world’s greatest anecdote generators hiding behind robust, complicated, and ruthless game mechanics. Once you clear the entry threshold, you’re in top tier entertainment.

CK3 doesn’t set out to be a tragic comedy about terrible people, it can, in fact, be easily played completely straight, just a detailed simulation of medieval noble politics. However, the game’s complexity and reactivity mean that even weird choices can have interesting consequences. There’s also a ton of mods which expand the experience way beyond the official offerings.

Key features
  • Covers European history from 867 to 1453
  • Powerful ruler customization, both visual and mechanical
  • Complex systems modeling the peculiarities of medieval dynastic politics
  • Great mod support

Monster Hunter World

Release date:2018-08-09
Genre:Action
Developer:CAPCOM

Another co-op, but solo-friendly game on the list, Monster Hunter: World is an expansive game about, well, hunting huge monsters. Early on they start out feeling quite prehistoric, including one fiery T-Rex, but it doesn’t take long before you start hunting creatures which feel closer to fantastical creatures than animals, including a Godzilla-sized lava turtle and a few dragons and wyverns.

Thankfully, although any of these monsters could swallow you whole, you have access to extensive armory and arsenal you can build out of parts you harvest from hunted creatures. There are 14 weapon classes with very distinct playstyles, tons of cool armor sets, and let us just say, there is a reason you can save many different gear loadouts. It’s not a game you can just coast through.

Key features
  • Detailed monsters with breakable body parts
  • Excellent Iceborne expansion adding a higher difficulty and more equipment to forge
  • A spectacular gallery of believable monsters to hunt
  • Playable both solo and in online co-op

Resident Evil 8: Village

Release date:2021-05-07
Genre:Horror
Developer:Capcom Development Division 1

If you’ve played Resident Evil 7 and can’t get enough of Ethan Winters’, you will probably be glad to know that you can get Resident Evil Village, a proper sequel, for less than $20. The story picks up three years after RE7 concluded. Ethan, Mia, and their daughter Rosemary’s European life is rudely interrupted, and Ethan ends up in a remote village ruled by twisted nobles and their creatures.

As before, RE8 is a first-person survival horror with a stronger focus on action compared to its predecessor, but it doesn’t skimp on puzzles and horror either. The story fleshes out the setting as well, tapping into the previously not very well explored backstory of the Umbrella Corporation, so fans of lore-exploring have something to bite into as well.

Key features
  • First-person perspective survival horror, with a few FPS sections
  • Sequel to Resident Evil 7
  • Great graphics powered by RE Engine
  • Excellent setting: a remote European village reminiscent of Resident Evil 4

Valheim

Release date:2021-02-02
Genre:Sanbox, survival
Developer:Iron Gate Studios

Valheim is a survival game alright, with meters-maintaining and base building you likely associate with the genre, but here, you don’t have to worry about dying if you hunger goes down to zero. See, you’re already dead. Valheim takes place in afterlife, and your job, ordained by Odin himself, is to take down a few pesky bosses before you’re allowed into Valhalla for a proper afterlife.

Although the core mission of the game is for you to defeat bosses terrorizing the game’s several regions, you are free to ignore this and focus on something else, like exploration or building a base with Valheim’s powerful construction system. Valheim servers can hold up to 10 players, which is a sweet spot for a focused world shared with friends or another small community.

Key features
  • A relatively chill survival game with a Viking theme
  • Accessible and impressive base-building systems
  • Procedurally generated world
  • Excellent exploration, including sailing

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

Release date:2017-10-10
Genre:Adventure
Developer:Monolith Productions

Shadow of War builds on the momentum generated a few years prior by Shadow of Mordor and takes special glee in expanding on the Nemesis system introduced by its predecessor. Now you get to build a proper army by brainwashing orcs into being loyal to you, and you can establish them as commanders of fortresses you conquered. Good stuff.

Surprisingly, it deviated form the first game’s dedicated equipment in favor of classic loot with different stats, including equipment sets conferring unique bonuses. Although the game initially included lootboxes, they have since been removed, making playing the game the only way to get better stuff.

Key features
  • Continues the story of Talion
  • Plenty of diverse loot
  • Combat system expanded with new tools and maneuvres
  • Build your own orc and troll army and lay siege to enemy fortresses

Risk of Rain 2

Release date:2019-03-28
Genre:Indie
Developer:Hopoo Games

Risk of Rain 2’s major difference from the first game in the series is the transition to the third dimension. It changes a lot about how the game is played, but the fundamental ideas remain roughly the same as before. It’s a third-person shooter with more than a few shades of a roguelike, and the core idea is this: kill aliens until your teleport off the map is ready, you die, or you decide you have had enough.

The longer you play, the more dangerous the enemies become, of course, but you also get more experience and currency to buy upgrades of all kinds. You also have several characters available, each with unique unlockable abilities acquired by accomplishing certain goals. If you played the first RoR, there are even some returning characters.

Key features
  • Distinctive visual identity
  • The matches can go on as long as you can stay alive
  • Several different player character classes
  • Improve your character mid-match with experience and money

Nier: Automata

Release date:2017-03-17
Genre:RPG
Developer:PlatinumGames

Nier: Automata formally takes place long after the fourth ending of Nier, the second game in the Drakengard series. If that sounds a tad confusing: good, because the game isn’t going to be straightforward either. Automata has been lauded by critics and community alike for its philosophical themes, excellent combat, and complex story.

N:A is also surprisingly diverse in terms of its gameplay, but mixing hack’n’slash battles with bullet hell segments, story-relevant choices as well as chip-based upgrade system places it squarely in the action RPG genre. It’s a great game, one of PlatinumGames’ best.

Key features
  • Spectacular combat
  • Strong roots in philosophy
  • Captivating characters
  • Unusual true ending

Conan Exiles

Release date:2017-01-30
Genre:Adventure
Developer:Funcom

Games based on Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories have been, historically, hit or miss. Conan Exiles is easily a hit, although if you don’t enjoy survival games you might not find it as compelling, as fans of the genre.

Exiles captures the harsh, but vibrant nature of the world of Howard’s invention very well, so much so that players can capture NPCs and put them to work as “slaves”. There is also a very good crafting system, allowing solo players and clans to build impressive, sometimes physics-defying bases.

Key features
  • Brutal combat
  • Best played with other people
  • Crafting allows you to build incredible bases
  • You are greeted to the game world by Conan himself

Planet Coaster

Release date:2016-11-17
Genre:Strategy
Developer:Frontier Developments

Have you ever dreamt of running your own rollercoaster-focused amusement park? If so, then Planet Coaster is a good way to live out these fantasies a little bit without needing a large budget. Created by people with a lot of prior experience with the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, Planet Coaster was bound to be a commercial success that it became.

With Planet Coaster you can design your own theme part rides, with animatronics, and fully customizable coasters. Especially the creative mode with all options unlocked and infinite money allows you to go wild with your designs. Especially if you pass on the career mode and go straight into creative segment.

Key features
  • Three game modes to choose from, including a guided career and a freeform sandbox
  • A lot of post-launch updates and DLC with new content
  • Created by developers experienced in the genre
  • Support for community sharing and mods

Civilization VI

Release date:2016-10-20
Genre:Economy
Developer:Firaxis Games

Civilization is one of the most venerable video game series out there. Sid Meier’s most famous creation, this 4X series has been the foremost cause of the “just one more turn” syndrome for three decades now. While hardly historically accurate, being able to pick a culture and see it grown from a tribal stage to a leading power on the continent or the world  has always felt great.

Civ6 introduced city unstacking, which means that most upgrades to a given city are represented by separate districts occupying their own hexes, rather than being abstracted onto the city’s singular hex. There were also changes made to research bonuses, and the road towards cultural victory was smoothed to be as feasible, as that towards other victories.

Key features
  • Hex-based, like its immediate predecessor
  • Cultural victory is now more achievable
  • Cities redesigned
  • Revamped research

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Release date:2016-10-27
Genre:Adventure
Developer:Bethesda Game Studios

One of Bethesda’s biggest successes, Skyrim has enjoyed huge popularity since its release in 2012. The province of Skyrim is inspired by Scandinavian landscapes and the popular perception or early-Medieval Norse culture.

It has semi-free form progression, which covers combat as readily as various forms of crafting, and non-combative magic. It’s largely a sandbox, letting the players travel the world and pursue any of plentiful possible activities. And when well-modded, it can look quite amazing.

Key features
  • Combat skills help, but you can level up without them
  • A large world full of locations to discover
  • Two main storylines, and plenty of smaller ones
  • Extensive crafting

Hearts of Iron IV

Release date:2016-06-06
Genre:Simulation
Developer:Paradox Development Studio

The Hearts of Iron series is one of the best and the most complex strategy games on the market. Each instalment revolves around World War II, and fully takes place on a strategic map of Europe. The series deals with movements of armies and large-scale decisions which affect entire regions and countries.

You can pick from a huge number of possible countries and try to lead the way to victory. You can save a country that historically was swallowed by the theatre of war, or defeat the big winners, if you play your armies, economy, and diplomacy right. Hearts of Iron IV is an excellent and complex generator of “what if…” scenarios about World War II, as well as the years leading up to it and those immediately following.

Key features
  • Difficult to get into, and well worth the time spent learning the ropes
  • Complex simulation of World War II
  • ”What if…” scenarios generator
  • Unmistakably a Paradox game

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition

Release date:2017-09-26
Genre:RPG
Developer:Bethesda Game Studios

Fallout 4 was the second Fallout game developed by Bethesda, and one that strayed further from the franchise’ RPG roots, but seemed more at ease with itself, committing to ideas more familiar to Bethesda: open world exploration, crafting (including creating settlements), and action-focused combat.

The GotY Edition includes all DLC content and expansion released for F4 post-launch. That means stuff like the Far Harbor investigation on a whole new island, or Nuka-World letting the player have the run of a theme park and join raiders.

Key features
  • All post-launch content is included
  • Build your own settlements from scratch
  • A huge world to explore
  • An entirely new progression system

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Release date:2018-02-13
Genre:Adventure
Developer:Warhorse Studios

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an RPG for people, who don’t enjoy the fantasy genre. It takes place in a rather historically accurate slice of medieval Bohemia, and follows the fate of a virtual nobody, a son of a small-village blacksmith, who, through various lucky and unlucky events, gets to rub elbows with important people of the region.

The realism goes to an extent where the game comes close to having one leg in the survival genre. In addition to various meters to manage, your character can’t even read until he (the protagonist is preset) actually learns the skill. Melee combat is also crunchier and more accurate that we usually see in video games.

Key features
  • Largely realistic melee combat
  • The world lives and moves on even if the player isn’t there to participate
  • One of the very few non-fantasy, non-SF RPGs
  • Multiple ways to solve many quests

Grand Theft Auto IV

Release date:2008-12-02
Genre:Adventure
Developer:Rockstar North

Although GTA5 is one of most popular, bestselling games of the decade, it would be unfair to forget about Grand Theft Auto IV, especially now that you can get it under twenty bucks. And since the story and the protagonist are really good, all the more reasons to check out the game that was followed up with crime city epic with three protagonists.

The protagonist of GTA4 is Niko Bellic, a war veteran, who arrives in the United States to turn over a new leaf, and maybe, just maybe, find a man who betrayed his squad long ago. Despite the best efforts of Niko’s cousin, the game’s story is really good, and the return to Liberty City is satisfying.

Key features
  • One of the best urban open worlds of last generation
  • Complex protagonist
  • Return to Liberty City
  • Two endings

Total War: Warhammer 2

Release date:2017-09-28
Genre:Strategy
Developer:The Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly’s Total War series has always been known for taking place in various eras and regions, such as ancient Rome, or feudal Japan. However, CA teamed up with Games Workshop to create a Total War based on GW’s Warhammer Fantasy license. It was great, and when Total War: Warhammer 2 rolled in, it turned out to be even better.

TW:WH2 increased the differences between each factions, and the factions themselves go beyond the typical humans-elves-dwarves. This time in addition to Dark and High Elves we also get ratlike Skaven, lizardfolk, and even undead pirates. There is also a very clear end goal: using the magical Vortex, and every faction has its own mechanic of tapping its power.

Key features
  • Unique factions diving deep into Warhammer Fantasy lore
  • Unique mechanics devised for each faction
  • A clear end goal in sight: the vortex of magic
  • One of the finest Total War games to date

Complete transaction

That concludes the list of our suggestions of fantastic games you can get under 20 bucks at the time of writing, but it only barely scratches the surface. So go and browse, you’re bound to find interesting games for any budget.